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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator report that Rind’s father first tried to open a mosque?
(a) Scranton.
(b) New York City.
(c) Wilkes-Barre.
(d) Trenton.

2. Which of the following phrases does the narrator use to describe Trump’s ascendancy (23)?
(a) “A vision of himself impossibly enhanced, improbably enlarged, released from the pull of debt or truth or history.”
(b) “[The] completion of the long-planned advent of the merchant class to the sanctum sanctorum of American power.”
(c) “A dream that imagines the flourishing of others as nothing more than a road sign.”
(d) “A man delivered from consequence itself into pure self-absorption.”

3. What does the narrator assert is the location of the New Khalwati Order?
(a) Broadway.
(b) Reade Street.
(c) Forty-Second Street.
(d) Duane Street.

4. Which of the following does the narrator report meeting as an executive of Rind’s foundation?
(a) Hillary Clinton.
(b) Chelsea Clinton.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) George Clinton.

5. What meal did Sikander have with Trump at Fresco by Scotto?
(a) Lasagna.
(b) Linguini alfredo.
(c) Veal parmigiana.
(d) Spaghetti and meatballs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much is the initial estimate for the repair to the narrator’s car in Scranton?

2. In which city was the narrator on Election Day 2016?

3. Which of the following refers to Moroni as “the finest mind of her generation” (xiii)?

4. The comment that “the man seemed to be turning into an imbecile, his hodgepodge views like mental flatulence, one fetid odor after another” (16) offers an example of which of the following?

5. How much money does Fatima leave to the narrator upon her death?

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